Bye-bye Moon program, hello ISS to 2020

On Jan 29, 4:02�am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Damien Valentine wrote:
On Jan 27, 4:56 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Ares-1, Ares-V, Constellation - all dead:http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...-budget27-2010...
Possibly a heavy lift booster at some future point.
But ISS will be manned till 2020 instead of 2015.

Have we got any official confirmation for this? �For all we know, the
"LA Times" just interviewed a couple of janitors and called them
"anonymous".

The story was reported in several differnt places, so it sounds like a
administration leak to lessen the surprise when the program termination
comes.



Incidentally, since at least half the people on this newsgroup hated
the Constellation program in the first place...shouldn't we consider
this a good thing?

It suits me fine, that's for sure.

Pat

I too am happy, NASA just spent money with little return on investment
other than enriching some military contractors and piles of receipts:
(

Its time for private industry to take over